Katie Couric to Host ABC Daytime Talk Show

It's official. After weeks of speculation, Katie Couric has officially announced that she will join the ABC family as host of a brand new syndicated talk show as well as with a role at ABC news. Couric's new show reunites her with her former NBC boss Jeff Zucker, who will produce the new series. The untitled show will debut in September 2012 and film in New York.

"I'm very happy to be returning to the network where I began my career as a desk assistant in 1979," Couric said in a statement. "It is tremendously exciting to have the creative freedom to develop my own show with Anne Sweeney, the Disney/ABC TV Group and Jeff, and to contribute to such a vibrant, innovative news division. I can't wait to be part of this incredibly talented, visionary team."

Couric anchored 'CBS Evening News' for five years after leaving NBC, where she had worked since 1989. While her new talk show doesn't debut until next fall, Couric will begin anchoring ABC News specials starting this summer. She'll contribute to ABC News across all platforms and programs.

Couric's new talk show will air on ABC's owned and operated stations at 3PM in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh/Durham and Fresno.

"Katie Couric is one of television's iconic figures and we are thrilled to have forged such an exciting partnership with her," Anne Sweeney, president of Disney/ABC Television Group and co-chair of Disney Media Networks, said in a statement. "We look forward to having Katie join the best News team in the business, and to working with her to create a dynamic and successful talk show franchise."

What you say is so true and in addition to that ABC will regret giving Katie Couric a talk show as she is not good on her own as a host, she is an ensemble entertainer as she was on the Today Show. Alone she is bad. As you say, too many talk shows already.

Just what we need, another talk show, with the plastic, perky Couric nontheless. This liberal-leftist shill for the obama administration wouldn`t know what real news is, even if it came up and bit her on her -ss. The perky one is the Jennifer Aniston of news. Go away already.

she can host all the talk shows she wants...no one will be watching...when people feel you are the cause of them losing something they have loved for years (ABC Soaps)they are not going to help your ratings...go away Katie!

my question exactly!! i won't be watching, taping, "dvr"ing, "web"ing or watching replayed episodes at another time. abc really should have tapped into all the ways people watch television shows before they started cancelling programs!

please do not put her on at 3:00pm, she can take the 4:00pm slot and keep Ellen at 9:am I love GH and it is the only soapleft on abc please do not git rid of it we do not need talk shows all day long. we need a breather of enjoyment.